ESCO Connecting people and jobs Francesco Losappio EU

ESCO: Connecting people and jobs Francesco Losappio EU Affairs Adviser to DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission

What is ESCO?

What is ESCO? • Multilingual classification of • European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

Why ESCO? - to improve the communication between the education and training sector and the EU labour market; - to support geographical and occupational mobility in Europe; - to make data more transparent and easily available for use by various stakeholders, such as public employment services, statistical organisations and education organisations; - to facilitate the exchange of data between employers, education providers and job seekers irrespective of language or country; - to support evidence-based policy making by enhancing the collection, comparison and dissemination of data in skills intelligence and statistical tools, and enabling better analysis of skills supply and demand in real-time based on big data.

Three ESCO pillars 2, 942 Occupations 2, 414 Qualifications 13, 485 Skills

Occupational Profiles in ESCO • https: //ec. europa. eu/esco/portal/occupation

Occupational Profiles in ESCO

Skills in ESCO

Skills in ESCO

Skill groups • Transversal skills and competences Cross-sectoral skills and comp. Sector-specific skills and comp. Occupation-specific skills and comp. • Digital competences • Languages

Qualification pillar National qualifications databases of Member States. These qualifications are included in National Qualifications Frameworks that have been referenced to the EQF

How can ESCO be used?

How ESCO can be used Job matching Labour Market Matching at skills level Occupations Information on learning opportunities Skills/ Competences Guidance & counselling Performance management, appraisals Qualications Forecasting & planning Education/ Training 15

Continuous improvement of ESCO

• Overview of the ESCO improvement process 4. Release 1. Preparation 3. Knowledge engineering 2. Scoping

ESCO COMMUNITY FORA • Accessible only by direct invitation q community forum for ESCO domain experts q community forum for the ESCO Maintenance Committee q community forum dedicated to Member States' representatives • Free open access q community forum for the ESCO implementers 18

Role of domain experts Users are encouraged to provide their feedback on: • • preferred terms alternative labels descriptions of occupations and skills and knowledge concepts ISCO codes associated to ESCO occupations essential and optional skills and knowledge foreseen for an occupation relations between occupations and skills spelling mistakes new occupations and skills not included in ESCO 19

Next steps! Ø New structure for the Skills Pillar Ø Translations of the descriptions in all ESCO languages Ø Reflection on transversal skills Ø ESCO v. 1. 1

Thank You!!!